utahman1971 Really, where is the gore everyone is talking about in the Unrated version. It was like rated R gore in it. Not one bit as close as Dead Alive gore comparison. Come on people. Gross out gore, where? It was nothing. I could of ate a feast of food while watching this and be fine. This was nothing to be sick about.It would jump back and forth from something happening to nothing in slow motion of nothing happening in every minute through out the film. I seen better horror movies than this in the 80's. The ending was terrible. I can see why there was no sequel. Acting was good, and gore was descent, but no gore fest. For the people that think this is gory, then watch Dead Alive. Big difference.Too bad some people lose their stomach over nothing.

Michael_Elliott Intruder (1989) * (out of 4) Scott Spiegel's cult classic slasher has a group of third shift workers at a supermarket coming under attack from a mysterious person who is slicing them up in a variety of ways. INTRUDER comes as a major disappointment and especially after hearing so many great things about the uncut version of the film. I sat down to watch this movie with high expectations but by the thirty-minute mark I was ready to turn the film off and viewing it didn't get any easier. After watching the film I went back and read some other reviews and it seems even the most positive ones said for people to just overlook the fact that nothing really happens for the first thirty-minutes or so. How do you overlook the first thirty-minutes when they're nothing but boredom? For a slasher movie this one here much hold the record for the amount of worthless dialogue that we're given. The film sets up a female cashier's ex-boyfriend as the psychopath and we get countless bits of dialogue about their relationship and countless other things that really don't add up to anything. The film painfully and slowly drags along until we finally get to the murders. These murders all take place in about a twenty-minute period and then we get to the climax where the killer stalks the last survivor. This entire chase sequence is as boring and poorly directed as the first half of the picture. Everything you've heard about INTRUDER in regards to its gore level is true. The gore effects are the only reason to sit through this thing and they're quite graphic in their uncut form and all the credit much go to Gregory Nicotero, Sean Rodgers, Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger for their work. The saw through the side of a head is certainly the highlight. Performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this but I'd say they're slightly better than normal. There are some "fun" roles given to the likes of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell but these really never pay off in any way. INTRUDER was released at a time when the slasher genre was pretty much dead but I can see how gore-hounds kept this one alive due to the special effects. However, I'd recommend just fast forwarding through the rest of the flick as it's incredibly hard to sit through. There's no suspense, no laughs, nothing at all.

Scott LeBrun Give screenwriter / director Scott Spiegel for his inventive contribution to the slasher film cycle of the 70's and 80's: a supermarket slasher! That's right, the overnight crew of a friendly local supermarket fall victim to an utterly deranged and hilariously sadistic psychopath. They were about to lose their jobs as the place was soon to be sold by its owners, but they do find that there ARE worse things to lose than jobs! If you're a fan of gory slashers, you're sure to find this an absolute hoot, as Spiegel and crew make use of a number of the implements to be found in such places. You'll be howling with laughter and appreciation. The bloody mayhem is courtesy of K.N.B., in one of their earlier gigs, and is just great. Not only that, but the filmmakers invest this with more style than one might expect, coming up with some great gags in terms of how to shoot scenes. Not only that, but they dispense with some of the standard genre clichés - the first one to go may actually be the nicest character in the whole thing, and there's more than one survivor at the end, which is darkly ironic. Spiegel, who scripts based on his and producer Lawrence Bender's story (Bender, of course, having gone on to great success with his collaborations with Quentin Tarantino), invests the proceedings with some genuine suspense and atmosphere, but most importantly, an irresistible macabre humour - one of the best moments involves a character receiving a beat down with a severed head (!). And who can pass this up seeing real-life brothers, director Sam Raimi (as the butcher) and actor Ted Raimi (as the produce guy) among the victims? (A word to the wise that if one watches this for Bruce Campbell, he only turns up at the very end; his role is really just a cameo.) Cute Renee Estevez (sister of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen), who'd also been in "Sleepaway Camp 2", and sexy Elizabeth Cox are appealing; Dan Hicks is particularly great as Bill. In addition to Campbell, veteran actors Emil Sitka and Alvy Moore have delicious cameos as well. Overall, "Intruder" is just a whole lot of nasty fun. The first half mostly consists of setting things up, but once the movie cuts loose, it's fantastic. It comes highly recommended. Eight out of 10.

Agnelin I have rated "Intruder" 7/10, halfway between the mark you'd give a movie that you like and is good, and one you'd give a movie that -like this one- is of very questionable technical quality or perhaps flat-out bad."Intruder" is a bad movie. Not terribly bad, but it has very poor acting (with the exception of Dan Hicks, perhaps, who single-handedly makes the movie worth watching even for those who don't especially like slasher flicks), a virtually non-existent plot, most of the characters are mere figurines to be disposed of...On the other hand, though, there are some serious people behind this project -Sam & Ted Raimi, Scott Spiegel of Evil Dead 2, Lawrence Bender (who would reach a solid status as Quentin Tarantino's producer)...- and the movie is absolutely fun to watch. For example, it is set in a real grocery market, and it shows, because it displays real grocery brands and products from 1989; also, both the products and all the store facilities are used in very, let's say, creative and hilarious ways. The story goes like this: several kids go to work to this market as the night shift crew, and they are informed that it is their last work day there, as the store owners are selling it over. Parallel to this, the blonde scream queen of the show, Jennifer (Elizabeth Cox) is being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. Soon after this, someone starts to kill the crew members...Like I said, while the plot is really thin and the relationships between the characters don't matter in the least, the movie is just a lot of fun to show, and you can tell that the film-makers had to make do with a very modest budget and what they had at hand. And they did a very fine job, producing some of the best-done kills that I have seen in 80s slasher movies. Also, you can tell that the actors were having fun doing this, and the wooden acting even adds to the charm of the film.I think a remake, with a higher budget and perhaps a more elaborate plot, would be great, but probably not half as much fun to watch as this. Enjoy!